About 3 weeks ago, Corey Sanders (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-container-instances/) announced in his blog that Azure Container Instances is in private preview. I think that this new Azure service is very promising. In a nutshell, it is a hosted and managed Container cluster. The only thing you need to take care of is to create a container image […]
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Running a Linux VSTS Agent on Azure Container Instances
August 18, 2017 
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Publish symbols to Azure File Storage with the VSTS Hosted Agent
June 14, 2017 2 Comments
A while ago I migrated a lot of builds to the Visual Studio Team Services Hosted Agents. This works great. We reduced the number of build servers and agent on-premises and can now easily scal up and down. But .. as it goes… there is always that next thing on the list. In my case […]
Continue reading Only trigger a release when the build changed
May 1, 2017 1 Comment
I created a Build task for this purpose as well. Check it out here! Back in the early days, when we used XAML builds in TFS (wow that seems like ages ago!), we had the possibility to NOT execute a build when nothing changed in the source code repository. This checkbox “Build even if nothing has changed” […]
Continue reading Installing a VSTS Build agent on Mac OSX
February 13, 2017 1 Comment
Today I needed to install the VSTS Build Agent on a Mac Mini in the office so we can build the IPhone App. The great part of the new build infrastructure in VSTS is that it is Cross Platform and we CAN do that. Just download the agent and run the command provided in the interface. […]
Continue reading Copy files (and run tests) on a remote machine back to the VSTS build and release agent
September 27, 2016 1 Comment
This week I was working on a script, running in my VSTS release pipeline that executed Pester tests on a remote machine. Running Pester tests on the VSTS Build and Release Agent work fine with one the awesome tasks on the Visual Studio Marketplace, but this was about running the tests remotely AND getting the […]
Continue reading Controlling build quality using Build Tags and VSTS Release Management
July 8, 2016 2 Comments
On many occasions a release is a composition of many different artifacts, like product MSI’s, Shared Assemblies, Documentation etc.. I like to compare it with a big box that you use when moving. You fill it up with all sort of little boxes and other stuff and you label it. The big box is the […]
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April 8, 2016 Comments Off on 2 weeks full of highlights
Wow ! Normally I post about VSTS or TFS or just about some other techy stuff but my last 2 weeks were so packed with highlights, both personally and at Xpirit, I just wanted it to share with you. I’ll first give you the executive summary Personally I became ALM MVP for the 5th time […]
Continue reading Unattended install of a Visual Studio Team Services (a.k.a. VSO) Build Agent
November 26, 2015 2 Comments
A while ago I was looking at installing the VSTS build Agent on Linux and was searching for the possibility to uninstall it unattended. I was doing this because I wanted to run my agent in a Docker container and on startup I wanted to run a configured agent. I solved ths by using an […]
Continue reading Build, Test, Deploy, Repeat – Slides from my Techorama session
May 13, 2015 Comments Off on Build, Test, Deploy, Repeat – Slides from my Techorama session
Techorama is a new international developer conference that was born in 2014. It is a conference that is organized by 3 community-driven techies, Pieter Gheysens, Gill Cleeren and Kevin DeRudder and brings inspiring keynotes, deep-dive developer sessions, integration scenarios and best practices. All this goodness is professionally delivered by international speakers and local community rock […]
Continue reading Build fails when associating work items
March 16, 2015 Comments Off on Build fails when associating work items
Recently I ran into a strange problem. I modified a work item type definition and added a field. So far, so good. The field could be edited and everyone was happy. But after that, my build failed. As you may or may not know you can choose to associate work items during a check-in (read […]
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- Knowledge Driven Culture
- Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
- Aligned Autonomy in Practice
- Building an Engineering Culture
- Embrace chaos to achieve stability
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
The Road to ALM 